Official definition of call-by-value (Re: Finding the instance reference...)

[Derek Martin]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:30:45AM +0000, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> [...]
> > If you like, you could think of the value of an object as the set of
> > all possible values to which the object may evaluate in every possible
> > context, given a particular state of the object.
> 
> This definition looks a bit circular to me ;)

Why, because it has the word "value" in the definition?  It's not
circular.  The thing being defined is "value of an object".  The word
"value" has a pre-existing well-understood natural language definition.

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Derek D. Martin
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